Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18


this day our daily bread and forgive us ou1
trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
4 against US; and lead US not into temptation
but deliver US from evil. For thine is the
kingdom, and the power and the glory, for
| ever and ever--Amen.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
the love of God, and the fellowship of the
Holy Ghost be with US all eyermore-
/ Amen.
The German singing societies rendered
"This is the day of the Lord" in superb style,
and then armIess Comrade George w. War
ner of post H. assisted by Almarine Hay
ward, post so, Wiegand Schlein, post rs, and
Veteran Sailor Captain H. P. Crafts unveiled
the monument amid the booming of cannon
1 from Indian Neck and the ships of war in the
l harbor.
The orator of the day was introduced by
| President Dwight.
I The Grafton BY Rev. DIR. Smyth And
The other Addresses.
Fellow citizens-Upon this glad, solemn
1 day the town of NewHaven fulflls duty.
The war record of this city was not COM
pleted until this monument was unveiled.
The past required of US these memorial
4 stones, and we are now to bequeath to the
future this finished shaft. They who died
for US need not our grateful commemAra-
ton. They entered into their reward when
from the midst of the battles flame they
1 assembled, victorious spirits, into the glory
of the unseen and the peace of the eternal.
To brave and noble souls the consciousness
of duty bravely and nobly done was joy of
1 life in death which needed not for its per-
feet triumph fore-knowledge of this day
hosannas of a grateful people. But we need
to remember them, or we should prove our
selves ignoble. And they toe, if spirits can
stoop to take knowledge of the passing mo-
ments of this little earth, might blend this
day their splendid memories with our ac-
CARNATIONS, as the bright sunbeams from
above CLEAN upon the banner which they
loved, and rest upon the colors for which,
uplifted in brave hands, they died.
The town of New Haven has owed to its
own good name this monument to the men,
DRY of its soldiers and sailors in four great
wars; and now that the magistrates of the
| people are here to perform their full and final
l duty in dedicating this completed work,
| every loyal heart in loyal city will own a
sacred obligation fulfilled.
Connecticut's war governor, of noble mem
l ory, spoke for all the people when he ut
| tered these words which we may now re-
l peat before this unveiled monument "For
myself I am personally the debtor of every
true son of Connecticut who fought, and
/ thrice the debtor of every one whs fell for
the honor of the State and the Union"
The town of New Haven has earned the
right to erect upon this commanding height,
/ in henor of its past, a monument crowned
with the form of the angel of peace, whose
| face shall recsive the first rays of the days
that are to dawn, in the years to come,
upon q city of prosperous streets and happy
homes. Fer in each war of the nation the
town has filed its quota with good men and
true, and to the great conflicts for the in
dependence of the republic and the integrity
of the nation it has given distinguished sons.
When the first note resounded through the
valleys and was reverberated among the hills
of New England, the town which brave
and godly company of pilgrims had founded
sent her tsons of liberty" by prompt COM
panies to the army which Washington was
gathering. Even before the beacon-fres of
the war of the Revolution had been kindled,
when the spirit of resistance to oppression
was growing in the heart of the people, the
town of New Haven put upon its record this
vote; which here tosday let me read to its
honor: ''Voted, that the selectmen procure
stock of powder agreeable to the law in
snch case provided, as soon as may be, for
the towns use." One indeed there was who
went forth with that first company of fifty
fresmen-with them but not of them-a man
born in another town, but who had cast in
here his lot, whose name no monument bears,
but which in the countrys memory is coupled
in everlasting shame with one other apostate
memory-the Judas of liberty, of whom it
had been better had he never been born-a
name to be mentioned at this hour while we
dwell upon the glory of the illustrieus dead,
only as we remember how the darkness of the
thundercloud makes more visible the pure
brightness of the lightning flash. Nor should
We in this hour of commemoration be permit
ted to forget that treason is always odious as
patriotism is forever glorious and that dishon-
or is an eternal death.
Upon the green from which in 1861 the
Second Connecticut Volunteers received its
rsgimental colors, under the command of
Col. Alfred H. Terry, whom New Haven
cyrnafu to-day the a0n0uarinO gaDaral from
Fort Fisher, in the year 1776, David Wooster
marshalled a company of patriots, and after
proceeding to the church, and there offering
prayer for his country and his men, led
them forth to arduous service, which on
field of honor near Ridgefeld he finished at
cost of his life. And in the spring of that
same year, Col. William Douglas, another
name not to be forgotten upon this record of
honor, led forth to join the continental army
a regiment of five hundred men. The town
which numbers among its historic names one
Of the signers of the Declaration of 1nde-
pendence, and which still bears upon some of
it's homes the marks of British bayonets,
erects this monument to the memory of those
true men who, when the light famed up
from yonder Beacon hill. left their plough
shares and their fresides, and rallying by
companies where they could, or taking posi-
ton along the roadwsys, and among the
bushes, many of them single-handed and
alone, dared stand and fire upon his majesty's
drilled and veteran columns, as the stout
hearted professor of divinity in Yale col
lege, DIR. Daggett, true type of the consecrat-
ed manhood of his time with his long fowl
ing piece in hand rode furiously to the hill
commanding the road upon which the British
troopers must pass, and there held his
ground, firing with excellent effect, until
he was surrounded; and when asked by the
commanding officer what he was doing, he
replied, voicing the spirit which made this
country free, Exercising the rights of
war;" To that exercise of the rights of
war as only men born to liberty could ex-
ercise them, we owe our country's birth
right, and the nations of the world owe its
mighty teaching of universal liberty.
The town of New Haven gained its just
right to erect this monument in the war of
the revolution, and it kept that right also
during those two lesser wars in which its
soldiers found their way to Mexico, and its
sailors did their duty on the sea.
And with reverent and grateful pride
the town of New Haven declares also to
every traveller vino is hurried by swift train
across her boundary line, and to all passing
mariners within sight of our coast, her right
to erect upon this commanding eminence a
Soldiers monument which overlooks the
fields where her companies were drilled, and
the State House where contributions of the |
wealth of her citizens were gathered, and
daughters worked for the relief of her SOL |
diers at the front, and her hospitals where |
her loyal women, rich and poor, in one COM
mon ministry, cared with Loving hands for |
the wounded, and watched with tears and |
prayers at the cots of the dying, and her
homes, from which many went forth to re- |
turn no more, whose dear names will be |
breathed as sacred nsmes of sacred history
amid the tears and smiles of many a hearth |
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